A new law taking force in Scotland this month imposes strict regulations on how government mapmakers draw the Shetland Islands, a modest archipelago located approximately 100 miles off the British ...

Shetland is an archipelago of a hundred or so islands in the North Sea, featuring ancient hills, valleys and lochs. The string of islands is known for its remote beauty: it's a 12-hour ferry ride to ...

As Scotland struggles with questions of independence, the British Geological Survey might be seen as making its own geopolitical gesture by republishing the most ambitious of the early geological ...

SINCE the publication of the last edition of the sketch-map by Sir R. I. Murchison and Prof. Geikie, no general geological map of Scotland has, so far as we are aware, been issued, while those older ...

Scotland has a lot to offer visitors - 118 inhabited islands, more than 290 beaches, more than 1,000 castles and more than 30,000 lochs. But many of the sights are separated by miles and miles of ...

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THE first geological map of Scotland, made by Louis Albert Necker in the year 1808, was exhibited by Mr. V. A. Eyles, of the Geological Survey, at a meeting of the Edinburgh Geological Society 011 ...